A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party, and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies looks at the tea partier and says,"look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie."

an open letter to the man in the grey Lincoln town car that turned into the apartments on mt. royal blvd.

your freaking highlighted hair was perfect the first 6 times you checked it in your rear view mirror. my daughter and i followed you for over a mile and a HALF and you checked your hair every minute and a half while you drifted over on the berm or WORSE, over the double yellow line. close your damn sunroof if you don't want your hair mussed-next time you may kill yourself or someone else!

i fasted and took my 2nd blood test for cholesterol and got a letter today from my doctor(who i think is a SAINT) anyway, nope same readings as before! damn. my readings have ALWAYS been PERFECT. one of the few things about my body that was a non-issue-the other being my blood pressure-always a good low reading.

now- out of the blue- wham- so he wants to see me to start me on meds! i'm glad we caught it but heck, this sucks.

i tried remembering all of the meds i've been on and off of since i was a toddler- can't do it-too many.
too many meds. too many x-rays, too much crap.

but i'll get over my personal little "pity party" in a day or less and i'll make my appt. and go see what can be done.

‎"All that serves labor serves the nation. All that harms is treason. If a man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other."

my brother-in-law is getting yet another big blast of radiation today- supposed to get his port put back in for more chemo this week as well. AND, when it rains- it freaking POURS-one of my brother-in-laws, brother's in-law(i know him too)is back in the hospital needing a bone marrow transplant! he was in remission a bit over a year and BOOM, a few days ago he gets that dreaded call from his doc!
i've know him for ages too. there are 6 girls in that family and one of their aunts was my godmother. the six girls all got married and have kids (and some have grandkids) the 3 younger husbands all have come down with different cancers and the 3 older husbands all have bad hearts!
that should make one pause and count blessings- i know it does that for me.

Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows. By the way, Wisconsin is #2. South Carolina -50th, North Carolina -49th, Georgia -48th, Texas -47th, Virginia -44th.

as i was scanning the obits this morning-yeah-i do that- i noticed a familiar name- this man had grown up around the corner from me- we were almost exactly 1 month apart in age. my birthday is mid-jan. his was mid feb. he had just turned 59. his older sister used to walk me to grade school when i was in 1st and 2nd grade so i would walk around the corner to her house and wait while her family finished up breakfast.

i saw mark every day but never spoke with him. he had down's syndrome. back in the 50's. he was called a mongoloid, still. he was raised at home and rarely left until both of his parents passed and mark was an adult.

odd how 2 lives separated by 1 month and 1 block could be so different and yet i have a defect of the 17th chromosome and he had a defect on another.

R.I.P. Markie. i will always remember you as a child playing at being batman in your yard.

"Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

back from my early morning blood test. finally got some coffee and a bit of food in me!
had to fast before hand. i hate that. not because i'm really hungry but just because i can't eat and i know it-everything looks good to me!

60 degrees today!!! grey and a bit drizzly in spots but i'll take it gladly! a few days of spring before the cold comes back are a blessing.